Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Health, who cares so much about the health of Canadians and Quebecers, as she keeps saying, in my opinion deserves the gold medal for cynicism.
How can the minister denounce provincial governments forced to reduce health services or allow extra billing when her own government has extended the freeze on transfer payments until 1995?
How can the provinces maintain the quality of health care when her government is constantly reducing its share of health-care expenditures?
When she was in opposition, the Deputy Prime Minister said that federal financing was on a slippery slope and was creating a crisis in the Canadian health care sector.
The crisis is here and the responsibility for prolonging it falls squarely on her own government.